BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING.
The Jews have a word, lolidog which means "Not to worry."
That is what the Lord is telling us here, "Not to worry."
Be anxious for nothing is a command, not an option. To worry makes us the father of the household instead of being a child.
Everything is the proper subject of prayer. There are not some areas of our lives that are of no concern to God.
Prayer is a broader word that means all of our communication with God, but supplication directly asks God to do something.
Many of our prayers go unanswered because we do not ask God for anything. Here God invites us simply to let your requests be made known. He wants to know. God already knows our requests before we pray them; yet He will often wait for our participation before granting that which we request. And often He is granting our deeper longing, the thing we really need more than the thing we ask for... we tend to miss that aspect when we focus on what we want instead of focussing on God himself.
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#isaiah 43:4 Since you were precious in My sight: God here describes the motivation for His work of redemption. He loves us! We are precious in His sight! This is an Old Testament example of the truth in John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son. (Commentary David Guzik)
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#col3:12-13
Each one of the qualities mentioned in this passage express themselves in relationships. A significant measure of our Christian life is found simply in how we treat people and the quality of our relationships with them.
How tender, kind and meek are you?
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The day before yesterday I walked through the ruïnes of ancient Phillipi. The place where St. Paul met Lydia, where he must have walked at the Agora... where he ended up a prisoner... once it was a beautiful and mighty city. Now only ruïnes... Paul’s ways leaded him into prisonment. To fysical death. But what a future he is living now!
Ackknowledge Him in ALL your ways, is not just about the road you’re on right now. It’s about your history, about the past and all the situations God used to lead you where you are today. And it’s about the future paths He is leading you on to. Trust Him in preparing, in healing and in using your past and in leading you into a beautiful future. Acknowledge He is near. And you may not see the bigger picture, but it will be enough to know there is one. He has one! And knowing that: even the most bumpy road will look straight!
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On our Dutch bible journaling facebookgroup (bijbel journaling groep) the theme of this summer is ‘sun’. So sitting here in sunny Greece, I enjoy the light and warmth that comes from it. At noon, when the sun is burning hot and everyone is looking for some shade to escape the heat it came to me: even when situations are too hot to bear... even then: the name of the Lord is to be praised!
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Today I was privileged to go to this wonderful shop @notoriousclothing ... I won a voucher so drove over an hour and what a joy it was! The ladies in this shop have a gift: they are able to show their customers their beauty within. No matter your size or color: their motto is ‘when the dress doesn’t make you feel beautiful: it’s the wrong dress.
I had so much fun choosing a dress- never thought I would feel B E A U T I F U L in a pencil skirt 😅 😍
#thankyou @notoriousclothing!! #shopping #fifties #dresses #retroclothing #notoriousclothing #drawing

I want my husband to see me as beautiful - the same way Salomon did. And yes I dress up, put on some make up etc... but equally as often I express my love; I talk about what I love about him, how beautiful he is to me... The girl in Song of songs had described the beauty of her beloved in ten particulars (ch. 5:11, etc.); and now he describes her in as many, for he will not be behindhand with her in respects and endearments.
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Let go. Just let go. You don’t have to fight no more. The God of righteousness is standing in front of you. He will defend you, keep you safe... so don’t hold on to your own ways... He is near!! Just let go and let God!
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